Book Club Book: Three Cups of Tea

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Angie, if that is wrong, I don't want to be right. (You can Amazon subscribe and save on Mrs Meyers.)

[Ladybug]

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Oh. I should add that I bought my book and I'm three chapters in. Buying the book cost me seventy dollars because I can not leave a book store without purchasing all that I can carry. It is a sickness. DH won't let me veer off in to a bookstore if we have less than 30 minutes. This is my only post training indulgence! (Bookstore binging - and Mrs. Meyer's cleaning supplies. )

My book cost me about seventy dollars too. After all the effort that I made to stay out of Joann's I tripped on the cash register at the bookstore. Oh well. Someone has to stimulate the economy, right?

[oceanchild]

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I think of myself as a one woman library fundraising project. They can always count on me for a payment every time I check books out. Cleveland doesn't know what they are missing out on by limiting fines to 5 dollars. Brookline, MA would just bleed you dry till you hit the cost of the books....and then charge a reshelving fee as well. Not that I have any personal experience with that.....

The DC Public Library is so disorganized and incompetent that I don't even know what happened to my last round of fines. It's possible I paid them, but it's also possible I didn't. When I told the librarian that I thought I had paid them, she cleared them from my account, saying it was probably an issue with the computer system. Great for fines, bad for holds.

I was on the stationary bike in the gym last night reading this, and my former boss came in, settled into a nearby bike, and opened up the same book to the exact same page!

[medpedspouse]

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Kindle has been ordered (see my Kindle post) and as soon as I receive it, I am buying the book.

[DCJenn]

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It sucked me right in! GREAT choice.

As for the library fees- I'm at more than $100 bucks-but I know where the last missing book is. That will cut the fines down by a little. I think Nikolai and I will go learn about library fees on Saturday. (that said, there's a waiting list for the book so I probably would have bought it anyway.)

Jenn

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Mine is being transferred from another library to the one I go to. It has been a few days in transit. Dang stuff moves slowly down here.

[Michele]

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My library has it! I'm picking it up today....maybe I'll get through it in time....I'm so not a reader anymore.

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I just bought the book at Borders... are there two editions? Mine has the subtitle that says Three Cups of Tea "One Man's Mission to Promote Peace One School At Time" rather than the second post in this thread... This is a stupid question but do I have the right one? I'm reading it tomorrow on my way to the Caribbean.

Same one. When the 2nd edition was printed, he had the subtitle changed. On the first edition it was something along the lines of "fighting terrorism one school at a time".

[TulipsAndSunscreen]

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I feel like perhaps the first title was mildly inflammatory.

Hope you're all enjoying your reading!!

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I feel like perhaps the first title was mildly inflammatory.

Hope you're all enjoying your reading!!

Yeah - it was put on against the wishes of the author, and once the book was successful, he was able to make them change it.

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Thanks so much Jane and TulipsandSunscreen.... LOL I had to read the entire book to figure out that he got the subtitle changed! I just saw this posting now after finishing.

I loved loved loved the book.... excellent pick!
It brought tears to my eyes..... It especially hit home because my family's from Pakistan. I visited Rawalpindi last year and have also in the past visited my family's ancestral villages north of Pindi. (But not as far north as the villages in TCT). That's all I'll say for now!

[DCJenn]

When are we going to 'discuss' it? and are we going to decide at that point who is going next? Just a thought, but I really enjoyed reading about a part of the world that is always in the news so maybe that could be our theme for the year.

Jenn

[poky]

Looks like the discussion is slated to start 4/4, according to the first post here. I'm looking forward to talking about it. Checked it out from the library and read it in just a few days. Already returned it, in fact.

I'm about halfway in and had to leave Panera today because one passage started me doing the "ugly" cry. I wasn't sure I would like this book - but it is a great pick!

[migirl]

Just a thought, but I really enjoyed reading about a part of the world that is always in the news

ITA! I finished it already, too, and loved it. I wasn't sure I would, I was pleasantly surprised!! Can't wait to discuss it with everyone!